ShaneFalco
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The biggest rat in the league who intentionally tries to injure players on a regular basis has only ever received 5 games. Suspended 6 times. Let that sink in.
Suspended: Spezza 6 games (Reduced to 4 games) | Pionk 2 games
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Al14
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Yep, and you can be sure that if he was a Leaf, the punishments handed out would be out of this world harsh !!! The NHL knows that they can make examples of Leaf players without it impacting Leaf profits or attendance !!! I'm sick of this thinking.
We need a change at top of board of NHL .. right now Jacobs controls about 19/22 owner votes, is chairman and decides on Bettman as commish .. Bettman calls Jacobs daily (or did when Shanny was in NYC) to get lay of land on everything .. da system is BIASED from get go .. MLSE needs to get Rangers, Habs, Vegas onside with them and da big dogs of league need to FLEX their financial muscles .. whether that is withholdoing $$$ from da cash cows and/or voting against everything put forward by Jacobs and his gang .. Shanny is very well aware of da entire setup which is why you are right he is playing his cards close to his vest
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Check out their career stats before you determine the skilled player from the "goon".
I just cannot make any sense of a 6 game suspension.
It's very clearly a 4 game suspension, nothing more. I think any rational fan can agree the hit was predatory and a hit that Spezza needs to be held accountable for. It's just no where near a 6 game Suspension. Brendan Lemuix, who has been suspended 2 times prior to the Tkachuck incident got 5 games for BITING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
I read somewhere on the main board "you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes" with respect to Spezza. A cringeworthy Taylor Swift reference that deserves an immediate HF Suspension, but nonetheless it's fairly accurate. Spezza put his fate into the incompetent hands of the DOPS, and this unfortunately was the outcome.
Not to victim blame or anything, but is that saying not applicable to Pionk as well?
This is a dude that has taken 2 very healthy runs at our players over the last 2 seasons, injuring Sandin in the process. As far as I am concerned, this is the price you pay when you play that way. You cannot run around with no regard to player safety yourself, and then bellyache when someone takes a retaliatory run at you.
Pionk played a stupid game, and he was given a stupid prize.
It's very clearly a 4 game suspension, nothing more. I think any rational fan can agree the hit was predatory and a hit that Spezza needs to be held accountable for. It's just no where near a 6 game Suspension. Brendan Lemuix, who has been suspended 2 times prior to the Tkachuck incident got 5 games for BITING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
I read somewhere on the main board "you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes" with respect to Spezza. A cringeworthy Taylor Swift reference that deserves an immediate HF Suspension, but nonetheless it's fairly accurate. Spezza put his fate into the incompetent hands of the DOPS, and this unfortunately was the outcome.
Not to victim blame or anything, but is that saying not applicable to Pionk as well?
This is a dude that has taken 2 very healthy runs at our players over the last 2 seasons, injuring Sandin in the process. As far as I am concerned, this is the price you pay when you play that way. You cannot run around with no regard to player safety yourself, and then bellyache when someone takes a retaliatory run at you.
Pionk played a stupid game, and he was given a stupid prize.
What I don't get is what did people expect Spezza to do in this situation? He rather clearly lines Pionk up for a check, and then Pionk drops to the ice to try and play the puck with his glove... What, was Spezza just supposed to stop the hit he's clearly in the middle of to avoid hitting the now down-on-the-ice body of Pionk?I just cannot make any sense of a 6 game suspension.
It's very clearly a 4 game suspension, nothing more. I think any rational fan can agree the hit was predatory and a hit that Spezza needs to be held accountable for. It's just no where near a 6 game Suspension. Brendan Lemuix, who has been suspended 2 times prior to the Tkachuck incident got 5 games for BITING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
I read somewhere on the main board "you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes" with respect to Spezza. A cringeworthy Taylor Swift reference that deserves an immediate HF Suspension, but nonetheless it's fairly accurate. Spezza put his fate into the incompetent hands of the DOPS, and this unfortunately was the outcome.
Not to victim blame or anything, but is that saying not applicable to Pionk as well?
This is a dude that has taken 2 very healthy runs at our players over the last 2 seasons, injuring Sandin in the process. As far as I am concerned, this is the price you pay when you play that way. You cannot run around with no regard to player safety yourself, and then bellyache when someone takes a retaliatory run at you.
Pionk played a stupid game, and he was given a stupid prize.
the minute Pionk dove for the puck the knee was unavoidable. Spezz clearly meant to deliver a big hit in a predatory fashion, I don't think that is up for debate. But there is absolutely no f***ing way I'll ever be convinced that Spezz deliberately went into contact with the purpose of kneeing Pionk in the head.
Personally, I think Pionk is a complete f***ing clown to be honest. If I made a hit like the one he tried on Marner last year, and the one on Sandin on Sunday, my head would be on a f***ing swivel every time I step on the ice against the Leafs. He has to understand that. He did that to himself. He gave himself that reputation. No one else.
Spezza is not taking a run at someone for no reason. If you want to play with fire, occasionally you will get burnt. I really don't feel sorry for Pionk TBH. I hope he doesn't miss too much time due to injury, and I really hope he has no lasting concussion issues as a result of the play. But I also really hope he learned a valuable lesson. That form of policing in the game I am completely fine with TBH. I know the hit was terrible, and the intent to hurt was there. But intent to hurt and intent to injure are 2 completely different things. I don't like the outcome of the play, and I wish Spezz picked a better spot, but there was no way there was intent to put Pionk in a body bag. Spezza, unlike Pionk, has a 1200+ game reputation of playing the right way. I think the league needs to be giving a little bit of the benefit of the doubt here. Absolutely pathetic TBH
Absurd lol. Spezza who has no prior suspensions gets 6. He definitely deserved a suspension no doubt, but 6 is pretty ridiculous. We have guys who are notorious for slewfooting and low hits etc etc. aka Marchand/Subban, I don't think either has gotten over 5 games. Pionk also should've gotten more than 2, that was a joke.
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Not only that...the league has turned a complete blind eye on all the dirty things Marchand had done since...cross-check to a Flyer's face, licking incident on Komarov, the same charging action that landed Kerfoot a suspension, while he got nothing...it's like he's being purposely re-invented behind a shield.
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It's real.
And it's literally the issue we have with the Spezza suspension. I hope the Jets fans are equally upset with it.
The joke that they use a wheel to hand out punishments is becoming more and more real.
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This is so bad. They just suspended someone a few days ago 2 games for doing the exact same thing. This was an easy layup and they botched it!
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I've come to the conclusion dops' job is to massively troll teams and their fans.
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What would you prefer happen after the Pionk hit? ? A 5 minute major and kicked from the game? Or no pp or game misconduct, but 2 game suspension?
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Who's the clown?
Not 1 single game suspension for this KNEE which was also completely intentional .. but a 5 and a game which was correct call at least .. NHL is a joke league for mgmt .. completely different for each team .. Carolina can barely make payroll each week so they get nothing .. joke joke joke .. completely covered by Jacobs for canes vote on every issue .. joke joke joke
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